Developmental history/historic
context:
No significant research has been done on this building by the author. This location
can be seen on the 1911 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map as 6 or 7 domestic structures.
On the 1932 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map the buildings coinciding with Nexus are
labeled the Standard Oil Company Inc. of Kentucky.

The following text and graphics are scanned from the December 1998
Nexus Annual Fundpublication
sent to friends and members:

1998
ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Nexus' history is legendary. 1998 was milestone for Nexus and the Atlanta arts
community Nexus turned 25! The center has been a hub of artistic activity and
creativity since the early seventies. With the move to Means Street in 1990,
Nexus become a catalyst for urban renewal and the development of a new arts
district. The renovation of the Nexus complex (gallery, press, artist studios,
courtyard and offices) was a marriage of a vision for contemporary art and a
commitment to historic preservation.

Nexus celebrated its Silver Anniversary with a number of great festivities
including the art center's 25th Anniversary Gala in April. The Gala solidified
Nexus' role as the premier contemporary art center in Atlanta. Highlights of
1998 gallery exhibitions include:

Boy
Toys proved to be one of the most popular shows of the year. Combining
robotic sculpture with fetishistic installations, the show proved thrilling
and disturbing in equal measure.

Desert Cliché: Israel Now
---Local Images was Creative Loafing's Critics' Choice for Best Art
Exhibition of 1998. The Avant Guard Revisited was an extremely successful exhibition
of a strong group of Atlanta artists. The show served as a wonderful backdrop
for our Anniversary Gala in April, drawing an audience of both old and new.

Le Movement Quoticlien: An Aspect
of French Art in the Nineties traveled to Nexus from the Grey Art
Gallery at New York University. The exhibition received rave reviews and created
a cross-cultural dialogue on artistic developments in France and the U.S.

NEXUS PRESS

Nexus Press built on the reputation that it enjoys as the only sponsoring artist
book press in the U.S. The press received the Lopresti Award from the Art Libraries
Society of North America for excellence in publishing Shinro Ohtake's booksAT lanta 1945 + 1950.

Analemmic: An Equation of Time, an artist book created with the residency
of Leslie Bellevance and Darya von Berner's Lupus
Viator Atlantaa meditative, gridded photographic journey, were completed in
1998.

NEXUS EDUCATION
DEPT.

Screenings of The Cremaster Series
by internationally renowned artist Matthew Barney were presented
by Nexus in 1997 & 1998 to sold-out audiences. His visually seductive films
bombard the viewers with a series of biological and metaphysical transformations.

Nexus worked with 4th and 5th graders at Fowler Elementary School for the 1998
Family History Artbook Project.
The books were on display in the Nexus Coca-Cola Classroom in the Spring and
Summer and were shown at the Youth Art Connection.

Dia de Reyes, Three
Kings Day, was attended by about 500 children from the Latino and Hispanic community.
The day of storytelling, music, and fun brings together children from diverse
cultural backgrounds.

A Walk through the Desert - Israeli
Culture Family Day brought many families to Nexus to celebrate Israeli
history and art. It was held in collaboration with the Consulate General of
Israel, Jewish Educational Services and the Jewish National Fund. 1999

1999
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS & PROGRAMS

Reading Art is a major
historical survey of artists books from Dada to Fluxus and beyond. The show
highlights the legacy of Nexus Press and includes a symposium, Futures of the
Book, which juxtaposes the avant garde book arts with developments in new technologies
of hypertext, CD-ROM, and the Internet.

1999 Atlanta Biennial will
give audiences an opportunity to discover emerging Atlanta-based artists. The
show will feature an array of highly talented artists working in a variety of
media. Nexus invites viewers to discover tomorrow's Monet today!

From Your House
to Our House, an exhibition in the Fall of
1999, will feature community-based architectural projects by David Hommons
and Sam Mockbee of the Rural Studio. (Web Author's Note : Sam Mockbee will
also lecture for the Atlanta Chapter, American Institute of Architects
in November of 1999. He's done some fabulous work. Call P.Scott Southerland
of Culpepper McAuliffe and Meaders
at 404.872.3900 for further information on this lecture).

Nexus' commitment to showing the best of the international visual arts is reflected
in 1999 projects by Ilya Kabakov,
the renowned Russian conceptualist artist, paintings and films by James
Herbert, and a solo project by artist and filmmaker Stan
Douglas.

Visiting artist presentations will include the Houston-based duo, The
Art Guys, known for their hilarious objects and performances which
lie somewhere between the Marx Brothers and Marcel Duchamp.

Gregg Borclowitz will visit Nexus in the Spring of 1999. Considered the AIDS
epidemic's fiercest philosopher, Bordowitz considers changing media images of
people with AIDS.

The 1999 ArtPartyshould prove, once again, to be the place to see and be seen, in September
always filled with cutting edge art and entertainment for everyone Come enjoy
an evening to remember with contemporary art, music, great food, dancing and
more.